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Part 3 of the TROM II documentary is done!

ONE MORE LEFT. One more! And I am starting the work on it tonight! #tromstuff


The second part, the huge one, of the TROM II documentary is done! Man that was a lot of work to fix/improve some stuff.

I can't fit the entire timeline in one screenshot but here it is:


Could it be better? Of course. Will I work more on it? Of course not. :)

2 more parts left. And these ones, from what I remember, are a lot less work. They are together as lenghty as this second part so there is a good chance I am done with them all in less than 10 days.

Excited to be done with it!

#tromstuff



Computer porn:

I'm using almost all of the 64GB of RAM :D. That's a bit extreme but I am doing a lot. The Kdenlive project for the TROM II documentary eats some 30GB already. But why have them if you don't use them? So I am happy I use my new laptop at full potential like I've always done with all of my computers.


I am bringing back our TROMsite.com Live Updates page :) - am excited for that. I wanted to bring it back for some time now. Basically I pull the ATOM feed from our Friendica profiles like mine, @Aaron , @Sasha and so forth, and filter them by a keyword like #tromlive. So you get automated updates from us all.

The problem was that Friendica only provides an ATOM feed while the plugin we use for pulling these feeds and filtering them, only uses RSS. I found granary.io github.com/snarfed/granary and open source converter so let's see how that works.


I am getting our tromsite.com more and more ready for the documentary release. I want to make it active again and TROMlive was one of those things that kept the website breathing.


One more because it is so hilarious:


Oh my god I'm dying hahahaha:

Who wants Tio's Reader????


I wanted to check today again on that chatgpt. And it is so hilarious and telling about how these statistical software actually work. It started well, then became a complete fuckery. I'd like to share that here.

Here:


Not super bad, but still. So it was better than before.

Now when I asked who is Tio, meaning me, here's what it said:


Oh my jizus-christ! So I am Tio Theodoros Mavridis, I am greek, I created the Zeitgeist Movement and the Zeitgeist Addendum documentary among other things.

This chat is the biggest bullshitter in the world. Can be so confidently wrong. It is astonishing.

This software basically puts words together based on what is statistically more relevant, and many times can create wonderfully written sentences while being full of shit. How can anyone simply trust this bullshitter is beyond me. I can ask it about anything and I would have no clue if it is complete garbage or not.

So, what is this crap useful for except funny poems and lame chitchatting?


Why I hate smartphones.



videoneat.com is a website I run since 2012 and all of the documentaries there can be downloaded via the Bittorrent network. Check the "magnet" links for any of them.


Some 47 minutes done for the last TROM II part:


Very efficient today. Only some 15 more minutes till all is done! Wow...can't believe I am getting so close.

Happy with this last part so far. But I have to be honest, I feel like I can't judge this documentary anymore....after 2 years of editing....idk if it makes sense or not. Regardless I'll finish it haha.

I will continue to work on it these days, more and more.


Oh well I suspect your screen has a very small resolution. This is not how it looks on my full hd screen.

I did not test it much for other resolutions but will try to improve it a bit the following months. Am too sick now and also need to focus on TROM II. In the meantime try to zoom out a bit ;)


TROM II documentary update: I finished some 37 minutes from the last part :) - I am definitely half way and I think I already did the hard part.


As you can see we talk a bit about these beauties too :) - friendica, mastodon, and the like ;)

Also, god bless the 64GB of RAM:


They do help a fuck lot!

Will I finish this part this month? We shall see! :)


Do people have thoughts anymore?



It is not even accepting a true answer hahahaha

This one seems very stubborn. haha


Two questions, two failures...


I finished some 22 minutes of the last part of TROM II. This was a lot faster than I imagine but I worked a lot too. I feel a bit tired :D. And I am a bit stuck at the moment :D.

So maybe I'll take it easier for a few days. Th next 5 or so minutes I should finish in less than a week.


In a way I thought "what if I finish it this month" haha. But then I should not put so much pressure on me. I want to make it very good.

In any case, it is February now and I've already finished 22 minutes out of perhaps 1h, 1h and a bit, of this last part. I think 2 months is more than enough for me to finish it. So, before April. Then in April to do the final edits for the entire thing. And in May to manage to create a trailer and get it ready for the release.

It is looking very promising. ;)


The war in Ukraine: 1 year later, 10 thoughts.



TROM II, 15 minutes done. The work is faster than I thought. For now at least. I think in a week or so I'll finish another 10 more minutes because I know what to do next in terms of editing.

First red box is done, the other one needs to be done :)


Not bad considering I only started a few days ago with this last part.

So far I like it.